Tuesday 24 September 2013

The Meaning & Symbolism of Motherhood

I have been preoccupied
once more and always
what meaning 
motherhood 
has in my life




How am I being a good mother?
How am I being not so good a mother?
What is it I am giving to my kids?
How do they perceive me?

And then
Out of Nowhere
Another Big Surprise
Another little Bean
Inside

An Easter Birth
to relinquish
The Death
of Mother?

Weeks of 
agonizing
and befriending
making peace
holding
making space
accepting
waiting

The Arch of Awatening or
Awakening?

And then
once more
 shedding
the arrival and departure
of another soul energy
in trickles and rivulets 
of shiny bright red
Blood


Mother I have forgiven you

What now?
Where from here? 

A baby squirrel is saved
a woman is giving birth in the doorway
What is the meaning?

And then 
Great Mother & Baby
go flying
her feet decapitated 


A Pause
A Listening

Perhaps

Life & Love
is what Motherhood is 

The feminine quiver
of Energy

Providing
Nourishing
Supporting
Sacrificing

Mother Earth
Waxing and Waning
Spring 
the beginning of New Life

Giving Birth to

a Child
A new Way of Life
A new Idea

It is back to Creation